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6 days ago | 
marketplace.org | Kai Ryssdal |Kimberly Adams |Marissa Cabrera |Courtney Bergsieker
In over a hundred years, no president has ever fired the chair of the Federal Reserve … yet! President Donald Trump says he could show Jerome Powell the door, even though Powell says he’s not going anywhere. We’ll explain why it might all come down to the Supreme Court. Plus: the economic conditions that led to the American Revolution.
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1 week ago | 
marketplace.org | Kai Ryssdal |Kimberly Adams |Courtney Bergsieker |Marissa Cabrera
Episode 1371Apr 15, 2025A little accounting magic might help. Happy Tax Day, folks. While you’re hitting “Submit” on your returns, lawmakers in Washington are negotiating what next year’s Tax Day could look like. Congress is aiming to pack President Donald Trump’s promised tax cuts into one behemoth reconciliation bill. But Caitlin Reilly, tax and economics reporter at CQ Roll Call, said there’s a long way to go before making these promises a reality.
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1 week ago | 
marketplace.org | Kai Ryssdal |Kimberly Adams |Marissa Cabrera |Courtney Bergsieker
It’s almost peak bloom in Washington, D.C., which means it’s time for our annual cherry blossom celebration! But first, some federal funding news: Columbia University will give in to far-reaching demands by President Donald Trump to restore threatened federal funding. We’ll get into what kind of precedent the move sets for higher education. And, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will cancel $500 million in food deliveries. Rural food banks could be impacted most.
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1 week ago | 
marketplace.org | Kai Ryssdal |Kimberly Adams |Marissa Cabrera |Courtney Bergsieker
Episode 1363Apr 3, 2025Our post-tariff takeawaysPlus, economists share how they’re preparing. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Imagse
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1 week ago | 
marketplace.org | Kai Ryssdal |Kimberly Adams |Marissa Cabrera |Courtney Bergsieker
Episode 1361Apr 1, 2025And, where the government really can learn from the private sector. The idea that the government should be run more like a business isn’t new. But with two businessmen, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, now taking a proverbial chainsaw to the federal bureaucracy all in the name “efficiency,” this theory is being put to the test.
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1 week ago | 
marketplace.org | Kai Ryssdal |Kimberly Adams |Marissa Cabrera |Courtney Bergsieker
Episode 1362Apr 2, 2025Trump’s tariff test. Will it work? Declarations of tariffs’ economic benefits during his first term might be overblown. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images
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1 week ago | 
marketplace.org | Kai Ryssdal |Kimberly Adams |Courtney Bergsieker |Marissa Cabrera
Episode 1369Apr 11, 2025Selling AmericaPlus, the American right to cheap goods. Hussein Faleh/AFP via Getty Images
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2 weeks ago | 
marketplace.org | Kai Ryssdal |Kimberly Adams |Courtney Bergsieker |Marissa Cabrera
Current stream: Carbon Sound - change to marketplace when marketplace.stream.publicradio.org is available Episode 1366Apr 8, 2025We survey the fast-changing tariff landscape. You may be wondering whether the prices of your go-to products, from avocados to smartphones, will be raised by tariffs in the coming weeks. We hear you!Over the past few months, President Donald Trump has unleashed a barrage of tariff announcements that can be tricky to keep track of.
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2 weeks ago | 
marketplace.org | Kai Ryssdal |Kimberly Adams |Marissa Cabrera |Courtney Bergsieker
Things are getting tense at the Internal Revenue Service. Layoffs are looming smack in the middle of tax season as part of DOGE’s mission to cut the federal workforce. Meanwhile, the commerce secretary says President Donald Trump wants to abolish the agency altogether. Get ready for a Kai rant! Plus, Trump wants to know if there’s still gold at Fort Knox. No, really! And, finally, we’ll smile about all the good things that have happened to you lately.
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2 weeks ago | 
marketplace.org | Kai Ryssdal |Kimberly Adams |Marissa Cabrera |Courtney Bergsieker
The Supreme Court on Friday chose not to intervene in a case involving President Donald Trump’s firing of an independent agency head. As the case is passed back to the lower courts, it tees up a legal battle that will test the president’s power to dismiss officials. We’ll get into what this could all mean for the Federal Reserve. And, U.S. national parks are being hit by the administration’s purge of the federal workforce.
